1 Corinthians 5:8 Meaning
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Context Explained
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
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Related Cross References
Matthew 5:8
Both verses emphasize the importance of purity and sincerity in worship.
1 Peter 1:22
This verse encourages believers to love one another sincerely, echoing the call for sincerity in 1 Corinthians 5:8.
Galatians 5:9
Paul warns against the influence of sin, similar to the leaven metaphor in 1 Corinthians 5:8.
Source: 1 Corinthians 5:8